Get Lamb out is a campaign with a simple goal - to get dunderheaded idiot George Lamb off the airwaves of BBC 6 Music. If you’re one of the many listeners who has tuned in recently and found yourself enduring his mindless blithering, you’ll probably want to add your name to the petition to have [...]
Rubbish charging given the go-ahead:
Councils in England are to be given the power to introduce pilot schemes to charge households according to the amount of rubbish they throw away.
I have mixed feelings about this. I’m pleased that people are thinking seriously about waste at last, but I’m not sure that charging for unrecycled waste is, [...]
Browsing an old school network of mine in Facebook, I discover a thread asking former pupils to name their “most hated” teachers.
The thread rapidly degenerates into shocking name-calling, abuse, and in several cases actionable libel. The people making these comments appear to think that Facebook is some kind of closed forum; they don’t seem [...]
Kevin Sweeney has been in a Dutch prison since 2001, after being convicted of the murder of his wife. Her body was found in the couple’s house after a fire. There was no evidence of arson, and Sweeney himself had an alibi that showed he was a long way from the house that night.
His [...]
Two or three years ago, annoying slebchef Jamie Oliver caused a stir with his TV-based campaign for better food in schools.
His TV series touched a collective nerve among parents in the UK, who for years had just accepted that school dinners were rubbish - because they always had been, ever since those parents were kids. [...]
A friend passed on an invitation to [Pownce](http://www.pownce.com/), and I dutifully signed up for an account at this Twitter-ish sort of soshul meeja thing.
Here’s what bothers me about it: after LinkedIn, Flickr, Twitter, and all the other soshul meedya sites, I must have trawled through the same list of people half a dozen times, meekly [...]
(In direct response to “What’s wrong with my blog?”.)
Creating a blog is easy. Building a readership is easy too. If you have a mother, you already have a guaranteed reader of anything you create online. Not that it matters much, as long as you have a piece of the web to call your own, [...]
Much fuss overnight about how interviews should be conducted. Some journalists say that only a telephone or face-to-face interview is acceptable; some prospective interviewees would rather do things in a way that suits them.
And most of the time, the latter is fine by me. Of course I’d prefer to talk to someone, but that’s not [...]
I get annoyed by articles I see telling people “how to blog”, or advising them of “the rules of blogging”, or “what your blog needs to have”.
All of it’s bloggocks. A weblog is whatever you want it to be. Comments, feeds, bloody “blogrolls”, datestamps, none of it matters. Your blog doesn’t matter to anyone but [...]
It’s the job that every trainee reporter on a local newspaper has to do sooner or later, and it’s the one that every single one of them hates the most. It’s called the “death knock”.
Here’s what happens: word comes in, usually via the police or the ambulance service, that someone has died. Usually in [...]
